Removable rim for vehicle-wheels.



G. S. VAN VOURHIS.

REMOVABLE RIM EOE VEHICLE WHEELS.

` APPLICATION FILBDHAR. 13, 1908.

Patented sept. 21, 1909.

' To all whom it may concern:

. ments 1n UETTED sTATEs PATENT oEETcE.

'GEORGE s. v AN voonms, or Bestron, MASSACHUSETTS.

:annoy/'ABLE am ro Specification of Letters Patent.

n VEHICLE-WHEELS.

Patented sept. 21', 1909.

Application -led March 13, 1908. Serial No. 420,864.

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. VAN Voon- I-us, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston7 Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Removable Rims for 'Vehicle-Vheels,` of which the following is a specification.

resent invention relates to improvefellies and rims for motor vehicles.

Owing to the weight of the load carried and the excessive strains encountered in rounding turns at high speeds and theiough 1 usages of the roads, the eectively securing 1 rims is attended with many difficulties,

metallic and requires a' character of fastening means which precludes the possibility of quick removal and replacement upon the road.

I have aimed in devising my present inventon to provide a construction which will enable the removal and replacement to be readily effected by providing the quick detachable connections between metal parts which do not present such difficult problems as connections between rubber and metal. I thus enablean automobilist tov carry oneA or more extra or reserve cushion or pneu,-

of cushion or pneumatic tires to l matic tires already securelyl attached to nation of parts hereina extra rims so that in case of accident to a tire upon the road the rim with its damaged tire may be easily and quickly removed and replaced bythe reserve one, leaving the more tedious o eration of disconnecting the damaged rub r tire from and reconnecting a fresh tire to the rim to be performed at a more convenient season.

I. have'shown in the accom anying drawings and described in the fol owing 'specification the tire as a pneumatic tire of the ordinary clenher type, but it is to be under# stood that this is merely representative of any suitable detachable cushion tire, using the term cushionin its broadest sense.

The invention includes the novel features of construction and arran ement and comber described and particularly 4pointed. out vin the lappended claim.

An embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings,4 in whichfi A .Fi refl is` a sectional perspective view showing the assembled rim and tire. Fig. 2

` removable Fig. 3 is tire' carried thereby.

Fig. 2

rim witli.the a vlew similar to downwardly turned iange 4 concentric,

lnel formed by showing the tire applied directly to the permanent rim.

Fighe is a sectional view taken through the tire and rim in proximity to the inflated valve, and Fig. 5 is a detail view of the rim arts showing them separate.

Referring by reference characters to these drawings, the number 1 designates the wooden telly of the ordinary motor vehicle to which the rim 2 is permanently secured in the ordinary or any desirable manner. This rim has at one side an upwardlyturned continuous flange 3 lwhich. is curved upwardly and inwardly as shown. Upon the opposite side the rim 2 is provided with a which preferextends at right angles to the main or portion of the rim. Resting Tupon removable rim 5 to the rim 2, havand inwardl ably horizontal the rim 2 is an inner or which conforms in shape ing likewise an upwardly curved flange 6 upon one side and downwardly extending right angle flange 7 upon -the opposite side. When the removable rim is in place upon the permanent rim as shown in Fig. 1, the side flanges 3 and 6, which are rest the one within the other, and the downwardly extending an'ge 7 abuts against tlieside face of the fiange 4. The shoe or outer case of the tire which is designated by the numeral 8 is provided with the ordinary beads or enlargements 9 and 9, the latter of which rests in the chanthe flange 6. The channel for the' rib or bead 9 of the opposite edge of the shoe is formed by the curved part 10EL of a removable rim portion plain lian e 10", designed to, abutV against the face ov the flange 7. The flange 7 has a plurality of horizontal projecting threaded bolts or extensions 11'which are designed to pass thrugh corresponding openings 11a in the iang'e portion -10b so that by means of the nuts 12 the removable flange 10 may be bolted securely and directly to the iiange 7 of the removable rim 5 independent ofany connection between the removable rim '5 vand the permanent rim 2. The removable rim 5 with its attached chan# nel strip or portion 10, forms a complete removable tire holding rim which in case of the collapse of the-tire by reason of puncture or the like, may be quickly or leasily removed from th liding itlterally therefrom and re lace flted tire. The removable rim is held permanent rim by simply a separate rimfwith rits previous y ,1n.l

10, which has a CII against lateral displacement upon the permanent rim by means of swinging bolts 13 which have hinged portions 14 upon the inner face of the flange 4, the body 13 of each bolt being adapted to be swung into vertical slots or recesses in the flanges 7 and 10b. These bolts 4carry `nuts 15 so that when swung into horizontal position as shown in Fig. 2 the tightening of the nuts hold the removable rim firmly in place upon thel permanent rim.

for any reason the user of the vmotor vehicle should not care to use the removable rim, or should desire to apply his clencher tire inpthe ordinary manner this may be readilyaccomplished by simply removing the removable rim portion 5, and attaching the removable ange 10 directly to the flange 4 as shown in Fig. 3. With the parts in this position the clenclier tire may be applied and removed in the ordinary manner, or if desired by the user repairs of puncture may be effected by removal of the Harige l0 which i enables repairs .to be more readily made than the ordinary construction in which the channel portions are integral with the main portion of the rim.

It will of course be obvious that with the A construction above described the ordinary wardly extending -ing an integral outwardly extending flange on one side and an inwardly extending Hangs on the other, aremovable rim seated on the permanent rim and having outwardly extending rim retaining flanges and an 'inflange abutting against the inwardly extending flanges of the permanent rim, said inwardly extending flanges having open ended slots, and pivotally attached locking bolts resting in said slots.

In testimony whereof, I aix my signature vin presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE s. VAN vooRH-I's.

Witnesses: y

LEONy A. MARsoN, ERLE A. BISHOP. p 

